Improvement in fire-tongs



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IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-TONGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,069 dated April 13,1875; applibation 'ed February 24, 1875.

To all lwhom it may concern Be it known that I, LUCIAN HOLMES, of thetown ot' Tullahoma, in the county of Coffee and State of Tennessee, haveinvented an Improvenient in Fire-Tongs, ot which the following is aspecieation:

My invention is an improvement in the class of tire-tongs Whose legs areprovided With a guide or guides, to prevent them passing each other Whenopened. The means l employ consist of bars pivoted together, and to earsor tlan ges formed on the legs ot' the tongs.

About the middle of the legs A A I fasten the two bars B B, With hingesC C, and oonneot the bars B B by the hinge D, so that they will open andclose With the opening and closing of the tongs. rIhe anges or ears E Eare extended as far as may be necessary or` described.

LUCIAN HOLMES. Attest:

G. S. HURsoM, W. C. Coon.

